Excerpt from The Philosophy of Missions: A Present-Day Plea Some portions of this little book - about one-third of the whole - appeared a few months ago in a series of papers in the Christian World, the Object having been to Show the continued necessity for Missionary work under the new conditions of the time. These papers having awakened interest in various quarters, it has been suggested that some service to the Missionary cause might be rendered by publishing them in their present and considerably expanded form. While the claims of Foreign Missions generally evoke a warm response, they yet fail, in too many cases, to enlist that intelligent sympathy which, as the grandest of the Church's ministries, they should everywhere secure. This want of interest is, no doubt, due, in part, to the unsettlement of theological thought more largely, perhaps, to a misapprehension of the nature of Missionary work in the present day, and to a very limited grasp of the reasons that should impel us, as British Christians, to prosecute it. Hence there may not unfrequently be Observed a disposition to disparage Missions and Missionary Meetings; as also to look down upon those dark races. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.